One of my images from last summer was just featured in the journal BMC Ecology, and was almost chosen for the cover . It is an honor to have a photograph recognized by a broad pool of judges. They noted, we have selected a dazzling scene from Colorado of a subalpine flower meadow (Figure 2). Composing…

One week ago, the Panamanian forest was punctuated by bright yellow canopies interspersed high above the rest of the forest. You can see one of these dramatic trees behind a train of the Panama Canal Railway, but the view is even better from the forest floor. This species, the guayacán (Tabebuia guayacan), drops its flowers…

Here’s a very average photograph of the forest floor in Panama. Do you notice anything out of the ordinary? There is a splash of red color towards the bottom left of the image – look closer. This is the midsection of a coral snake (Micrurus sp.), a species which moves underneath the leaf litter and…

I took my third trip through the Panama Canal earlier this week. Our lab is here for research, so we are heavily laden with equipment and materials for tree measurements. Here you can see us wrestling our luggage onto a small boat in Gamboa, preparing for our journey through the canal Our boat navigated past…